Join ICW and leading scholars in the field of borderlands studies for a roundtable on the ways in which borders are shaping gender identities and opening opportunities for the renegotiation of femininity, masculinity, and family dynamics along the U.S.-Mexico Border. Often focused on the history of capital, labor, and immigration, borderlands historians are also calling […]
Speaker: Laura Nenzi (Ph.D. History, UC Santa Barbara, 2004) Associate Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Event Description: Laura Nenzi, one of our very own (2004 PhD) is returning to UCSB to give a lecture about her recent (2015) second book The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko. The talk will focus on the process […]
Speaker: Susan Levine Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago Event Description: The Colloquium on Work, Labor, and Political Economy inaugurates the fall workshop series with a talk on October 16 by Susan Levine, Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She offers a paper, "'The Moral Challenge of Abundance': Humanitarianism […]
The History Department will be hosting a panel for this year's annual Parents' and Family Weekend titled "Current Immigration Crises in Historical Perspective." The panelists will be Adam Sabra, Salim Yaqub, Harold Marcuse, and Verónica Castillo-Muñoz. See below for additional information.
Speaker: Carol Lansing is a professor of medieval European history at UCSB. A specialist in the society, politics and culture of medieval Italy, she is the author of Power and Purity: Cathar Heresy in Medieval Italy and, most recently, Passion and Order: Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes. She is co-editor of A […]
Speaker: Masuda Hajimu (family name Masuda) received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2012 and currently is Assistant Professor of history at the National University of Singapore, where he specializes in the history of Japan, student movements in Asia, decolonization, and the Cold War. He is the author of Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict […]
Speaker: Stephanie Dalley Oxford University Archaeological Institute of America Norton Lecturer Event Description: Babylon’s Hanging Garden is the only one of the original seven wonders to have been dismissed as imaginary. Neither archaeologists nor Assyriologists could find evidence for it, and the Greek sources describing it are centuries later than its supposed existence. An […]
Speaker: Thomas Maloutas Harokopio University, Athens Event Description: Thomas Maloutas, Professor of Social Geography at Harokopio University in Athens, is a leading expert in cities and society. His lecture will be on social and ethnic segregation in Athens today. He will address the impact of the ongoing economic and political crisis on the city’s social […]
The workshop is open to interested faculty and graduate students. If you would like to join us at lunch, please contact Adam Morrison at cmes@cmes.ucsb.edu so that we can get an accurate head count. October 30, 2015: 9:45 AM Greetings and Introduction 10:00 – 10:50 Bilal Orfali (American University of Beirut), "Mystical Poetics: Courtly […]
Professor Barry Eidlin, a sociologist, is the author of Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press). A copy of the paper he will be presenting can be found here. This event is one of many included in the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy's "Power […]